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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

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Salt Your Wheat Land

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 April 1880 · page 4

MR. C. R. HALY has written the following letter to the Queensland Times, expressing a wish that it may be copied by other papers; a wish we have much pleasure in…

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Breach of the Liens on Crops Act

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1880 · page 2

AT the cootamundra Police Court, on Tuesday last, John D. Fergnson was charged with defrauding the right of the lienees (J. and E. Barnes) to certain…

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Taralga Agricultural & Pastoral Association

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 3

THIS society held its first show on Wednesday last. The weather had been not unfavorable during the preceding days, and Wednesday morning opened showery, damping the…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 2

A Committee meeting was held at the Albion Hotel on Wednesday the 14th April. Present: —Mr. G. O’M. Clarke (in the chair), Dr. Heeley, Messrs. J. C. Waraker, E. J. Allen, J…

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Taralga Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society's Show

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 5

PRESIDENT, L. Russ Esq. J. P.; vice-president, John Miller Esq. J.P.: treasurer, W. H. Whiting Esq. J.P.; hon. sec., J. W. Voller Esq. For a long time the residents in and around…

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How They Preserve and Pack Butter in Illinois, U. S.

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 19 April 1880 · page 4

IT matters little what package is used provided the flavor of the butter can in on way receive harm from anything in the material used. If wood is used, every…

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The Change From Farming to Sheep

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1880 · page 4

THE change going on in the southern colonies, and especially in Victoria and South Australia, from the ordinary routine of colonial farming, as the business is generally…

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Salt Your Wheat Land

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 April 1880 · page 4

MR. C. R. HALY has written the following letter to the Queensland Times, expressing a wish that it may be copied by other papers; a wish we have much pleasure in…

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The Way to Handle Sheep

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 April 1880 · page 4

THERE is a right way and a wrong way, a hard way, and an easy way, an awkward way and a skilled way, to catch and handle sheep. A great many men will catch the sheep by…

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Millers and Farmers. [Melbourne Leader.]

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 April 1880 · page 3

SIR,—As I know that you are ever ready to try to right the wrongs of the public at large, sad especially of the agricultural class, will you kindly expose what I…

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Millers and Farmers. (To the editor of the Melbourne Leader.)

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 May 1880 · page 4

SIR,—An I know that you are ever ready to try to right the wrongs of the public at large and especially of the agricultural class, will you kindly expose what I consider a rakn…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the committee of this society was held in the court-house last Tuesday afternoon. Those present were Dr. Campbell (in the chair), and Messrs. Rees Jones, R. W…

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Experiment in Sheep Shearing

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 2

The travelling reporter of the Melbourne Leader writes :—Mr. William Armstrong, Hexhsin Park estate, near Hexham, is this year conducting an experiment, which…

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The Farmer. Seasonalble Farming Notes for May

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1880 · page 3

UNLIKE the season of drought to which the agricultural has for several yeara unfortunately been subjected, the present has set in with heavy nine so early that…

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Experiment in Sheep-shearing

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1880 · page 4

THE travelling reporter of Melbourne Leader writes :—Mr. William Armstrong Hexham Park estate, near Hexham, is this year conducting an experiment, which will…

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Murder at Yathong. [Pastoral Times, 15Th May.]

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 May 1880 · page 3

On the 10th inst., a coroner's inquest was held at the Deniliquin Hospital, before Dr. Noyes, coroner, to inquire into the death of a man named…

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The Farmer’s Chief Wait. (Cumberland Mercury.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 May 1880 · page 9

Supplying the farmer with labor by an immigration system while talking no care to encourage his industry by a fiscal policy that would secure him a market, is like “offering…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 June 1880 · page 2

THE monthly mooting of the committee of this society was held in the court-house, Yass, last Tuesday afternoon. Those present were Messrs. Rees Jones (in the chair), J. K. Hume, T. Colls,…

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The Farmer. Seasonable Farming Notes for June

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 June 1880 · page 3

I[?]STRAD of the invariable "drought" complaints, the fault recently in many localities has consisted in too much rain to enable the village connected with…

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Goulburn Quarter Sessions. Thursday, 3Rd June.his Honor took his seat at ten a.m. Sheep Stealing at Queanbeyan

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 June 1880 · page 4

Joseph Blewitt (on bail) was charged with having, at Rob Roy, in October last, stolen eleven sheep, the property of Andrew J. Cunningham…

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